Participating Schools
A leader in American legal education's international outreach efforts since 1974, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law was among the first U.S. law schools to work with China in the development of its legal education system. An early exchange program between 1982 and 1988 produced the influential dean of the University of Beijing School of Law, Zhu Suli.
More recently, in 2004-2005, Pacific McGeorge participated in developing an innovative summer program, with Kenneth Wang School of Law at Soochow University, using skills-based simulations to teach teams of Chinese and American students negotiation and problem-solving.
Also in 2004-2005, under contract with the State Department, the law faculty at Pacific McGeorge provided advocacy skills training to judges, prosecutors and public defenders in Chile as that nation moved from a tribunal to an adversarial criminal court system.
This newest effort in China is a project of the United States Agency for International Development program and gives Pacific McGeorge the opportunity to share its strength in advocacy training and other practical legal skills with Chinese Law Schools.